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:''Sparkstalker is a [[Decepticon]] [[Firecon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''
:''Sparkstalker is a [[Decepticon]] [[Firecon]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''


[[Image:Sparkstalker cardart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Keeper of the [[Cindersaur | idiots]].]]
[[Image:Sparkstalker cardart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Keeper of [[Flamefeather | the]] [[Cindersaur | idiots]].]]


'''Sparkstalker''' is an example of bad allotment of resources. He is a brilliant cryptologist, a criminal mastermind capable of hacking Autobot datatracs and disabling the firewalls around their secure files or coded transmissions with incredible skill and secrecy, uncovering entire battle-plans without Autobot high command even knowing they've been uncovered. Decepticon military intelligence would raise several levels of efficiency if they employed him full-time. Instead, Sparkstalker has been made a Firecon, teamed with pyromaniacs and military dropouts like [[Cindersaur]] and [[Flamefeather]], who require constant supervision so that they don't burn down the Decepticons' own fortifications. Sparkstalker spends most of his time physically grabbing his partners by the head and aiming their fire breath towards the Autobots, or at least away from their fellow Decepticons. It's a gruelling job, and one he's hardly suited for.
'''Sparkstalker''' is an example of bad allotment of resources. He is a brilliant cryptologist, a criminal mastermind capable of hacking Autobot datatracs and disabling the firewalls around their secure files or coded transmissions with incredible skill and secrecy, uncovering entire battle-plans without Autobot high command even knowing they've been uncovered. Decepticon military intelligence would raise several levels of efficiency if they employed him full-time. Instead, Sparkstalker has been made a Firecon, teamed with pyromaniacs and military dropouts like [[Cindersaur]] and [[Flamefeather]], who require constant supervision so that they don't burn down the Decepticons' own fortifications. Sparkstalker spends most of his time physically grabbing his partners by the head and aiming their fire breath towards the Autobots, or at least away from their fellow Decepticons. It's a gruelling job, and one he's hardly suited for.

Revision as of 02:30, 19 November 2012

Sparkstalker is a Decepticon Firecon from the Generation 1 continuity family.
Keeper of the idiots.

Sparkstalker is an example of bad allotment of resources. He is a brilliant cryptologist, a criminal mastermind capable of hacking Autobot datatracs and disabling the firewalls around their secure files or coded transmissions with incredible skill and secrecy, uncovering entire battle-plans without Autobot high command even knowing they've been uncovered. Decepticon military intelligence would raise several levels of efficiency if they employed him full-time. Instead, Sparkstalker has been made a Firecon, teamed with pyromaniacs and military dropouts like Cindersaur and Flamefeather, who require constant supervision so that they don't burn down the Decepticons' own fortifications. Sparkstalker spends most of his time physically grabbing his partners by the head and aiming their fire breath towards the Autobots, or at least away from their fellow Decepticons. It's a gruelling job, and one he's hardly suited for.

Fiction

Marvel Comics continuity

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

Generation 1

He's got a future in hentai.

Sparkstalker and his fellow Firecons were based on Cybertron for "homeland detail" for most of the war prior to Unicron's arrival. They were given their first mission to Earth when the Cybertronian Decepticons were interested in forming an alliance with Galvatron, the lone super-powerful Decepticon from the future. Although the Firecons approached Galvatron in the Florida Keys with the proposal, he rejected the idea out of hand. Enemy Action! Later on, the Firecons worked together with an alien named Zabra to run an illegal gladiator arena in Tyrest out of the old Jekka Amphitheatre. Their chances at profit came to a close, however, when the operation was discovered by Ultra Magnus and the Sparkler Mini-Bots. Deadly Games!

Sparkstalker is the not-dumb one on the right.

The Firecons worked at a detention facility, where their old nemeses the Sparkabots were being held as prisoners. Reluctantly, Sparkstalker and his pals agreed to set free Fizzle, Sizzle and their Triggerbot friend Backstreet as part of a test run for Scorponok's new Roadjammers project. That didn't mean they didn't take the chance to rough up the Autobots a little bit before letting them go, though. Ca$h and Car-nage!

When a trio of Decepticons were sucked dry of energon, the remaining 'Cons naturally blamed the Autobots. Sparkstalker and Cindersaur went looking for trouble alongside Ruckus and Windsweeper, and found the Pretenders Jazz, Bumblebee and Grimlock. The fight quickly ended, however, when the real culprits showed up... giant mechanical demons from deep within Cybertron's core! Demons! The Autobots and Decepticons joined forces against the creatures until Emirate Xaaron arrived and blasted the demons with pure energon, returning the demons to the stuff of legend. Dawn of Darkness

After the defeat of the Planet-Eater, the Firecons came under Bludgeon's command, and left Cybertron to bring devastation to the planet Klo. Unfortunately for Sparkstalker, his luck finally ran out and he was incinerated by his crazed partner Cindersaur during a mission of destruction on that planet. The Last Autobot?

Fleetway Generation 2 comic

Sparkstalker re-appeared along with Flamefeather under the command of Bludgeon. First attacking a human city to draw out Optimus Prime, the two Firecons took the amusing target of a movie theatre playing Jurassic Park. War Without End Later, they attacked Megatron when he entered the fray to wrest command from Bludgeon. Sparkstalker then got promptly roasted after attacking the Dinobot Slag - "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen!" War Zone

Regeneration One

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Twenty-one years after being incinerated on Klo, Sparkstalker was sufficiently recovered to be present when Soundwave was recruiting for the "Neo-Decepticon" insurgency at Fort Scyk. He later participated in the attack on the Kalis Baird Beaming Transmitter, burning a way into the facility for the other Decepticons to follow, that led to the destruction of the Last Autobot. Counterpoint

Wings Universe

Sparkstalker and the Firecons were among the first generation Decepticons sent back to Earth by Galvatron to join up with Clench's second-generation Decepticon Syndicate. The Syndicate captured the Large Hadron Collider facility, where Clench and Sky-Byte manipulated forestonite into a substance capable of upgrading Transformers and giving them special abilities. The Firecons were exposed to the forestone, causing Sparkstalker to turn bright red and purple and probably become stronger, but the Decepticons were eventually defeated and driven off by the Autobots anyway. Generation 2: Redux

Clench presented the three Firecons to Jhiaxus as a "bonus incentive". A Flash Forward, Part 2

Toys

Generation 1

Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are!
  • Sparkstalker (Firecon, 1988)
Sparkstalker transforms from a robot to a bipedal insectoid monster thing, much resembling a chibi Gigan from Godzilla. In this mode, his rear limbs can be swung up, allowing him to be rolled forward on the rubber gear-wheel on his belly. This activates the Firecon team's gimmick, shooting "cold" sparks from their beast-mode mouths.
This toy was also used to make Javil.


Generation 2

Stop da music! Ha-cha-cha-cha!
  • Sparkstalker (Sparkabot, 1994)
Sparkstaker was redecoed for the European market Generation 2 toyline along with his fellow Firecon Flamefeather, though now both were branded as "Sparkabots". He retained his cold-sparking gimmick. As with all the G2 Sparkabots, the translucent plastic is particularly prone to breaking.

Notes

  • All of the Sparkabot/Firecon molds have indentations on their beast-mode legs seemingly meant for a rubsign. But both Hasbro and Takara stopped using rubsigns after 1987, so the spaces are "filled" with normal faction sigil decals.
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